of no confidence against chief chris moore. officers tell me the chief is out of touch with the department. they say there's no leadership and vision and blame him in part for the lower morale in the department. if the poa board approves the move, then it goes to the rest of the police officers to vote yes or no on the no confidence idea. but the move is only symbolic. only the city manager, as you mentioned, can remove the chief and she's backing him up. >> he is not going anywhere. he is our chief. he's really been dealt a very difficult hand, if you can imagine a chief having to serve in the most difficult time in this city's history. >> reporter: one other time has this ever happened in the history of the san jose police department. the last time it happened, the vote of no confidence was with former chief joseph mcnamara. actually that turned out to be the best thing for him because things turned out quite well for that chief. we'll see what with this vote. in fact if it does come to

fruition against chief chris moore. other officers tell me this is more of a political move by one faction of the poa. they say there are several factions and they are at odds with each other, so a lot of interesting things and tidbits coming out of the san jose police department. i'm damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. a life of luxury paid for with other people's money. that's the accusation a south bay realtor is facing tonight. she's behind bars accused of scamming more than a dozen people out of more than a million dollars. kimberly tere is live at the santa clara county district attorney' office with the elaborate scheme. kimberly. >> reporter: well, two of the people actually got together and figured it out and went to the d.a.'s office. the d.a.'s office says that they're concerned there could be a lot more victims out there. 50-year-old jo silve is accused of tricking 13 pope el out of

$up wi $1.2 million. paul collins says she would tell investors she had homeowners that needed to barry money. the investors would be promised their money back plus interest, and the borrower's home would be used as collateral. >> there were documents showing that the borrowers had signed it. the problem is jo had lied to these people. >> reporter: collins said it appears she homeowners names and pocketed the money, spending it on clothing, expensive cars, a home remodel and to keep the scheme going. >> a con artist's expertise is exploiting trust. and the evidence at least at this stage is that she exploited the trust of a number of people at both ends of these deals. >> reporr: now the homeowners, many of them elderly, are dealing with the repercussions of a fraudulent mortgage attached to their home and the investors are out a lot of cash. one said he gave silvey, can say 120,000, his kids entire college

fund. >> we will seek orders of restitution so they can try to collect on any assets of jo silvey. we don't have any evidence that there are reliable assets left. >> silvey filed for bankruptcy and a for sale sign in front of her home was put up around june 27, the time she was arrested. collins warns anyone interested in real estate investments should double check who they are trusting with their money and work with a title company. >> don't do business in cash. don't offer to make cash payments. don't accept cash payments. ask questions and make sure you understand the deal. >> reporter: if convicted, silvey could face up to 31 years in prison. her next court appearance is scheduled for monday and she is likely to enter a plea. we did call her attorney who says he has no comment and is still investigating the case. live in san jose, kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. tense moments for survivors of the san bruno blast today. the crestmore neighborhood

forced to evacuate after a construction crew hit a natural gas line near the same spot was where the 2010 blast happened. pg&e says the contractor broke several rules before starting work, including not notifying residents as required. there were no explosions or fire, but for people who live in that area as well as for first responders, today's ordeal brought back painful memories. >> it's a very sensitive area. i think everyone's hearts dropped when we heard there was a gas line break right near ground zero. >> this is exactly why we go out and work with contractors all over northern and central california and tell them the extreme importance of utilizing safety techniques. >> reporter: pg&e capped the line within 30 minutes. construction work for the area was halted for the day. the utility company is conducting a full investigation. happening now, the public weighing in on a plan to build a mosque and islamic community center in san martin. the project has been the subject of three planning commission meetings this week.

the center's proposed plan includes two ranch-style buildings, a prayer hall and cemetery. some residents are concerned about water contamination from the cemetery, but mosque organizers say those fears are unfound unfounded. the project is expected to be built on a 15-acre parcel of land just north of california avenue. we'll update you on the outcome of that public hearing as soon as we know it. time now for our continuing olympic coverage and day six of the games. celebrations tonight for an american woman who just became the first u.s. woman to ever win the gold medal in judo. phil rogers joins us live from london with more on that. boy, it is going to be a big night tonight for team usa. >> reporter: boy, jessica, is it ever a big night tonight. but you know gold medals in high profile sports like swimming and gymnastics always get big headlines. but this evening a lower profile

sport is also casting a golden glow for the united states. great britain awoke to see its iconic tower bridge bathed in olympic gold, celebrating the nation's first gold medals of the games yesterday. at excel arena, more u.s. olympic gold and history today as kayla harrison won the first ever american gold medal in judo. brought to tears as she received the medal and heard her national anthem. >> i pictured it every night for the last four years. and it feels real. >> reporter: at the same hall, russian president vladimir putin, who has written a book on judo, cheered his nation's competitor and his gold medal performance. while at the equestrian arena, app romney was cheering her horse, rafalca, in early rounds of dressage. at the lord's cricket ground, the american archer came up short in her quest for a middle, but the woman who taught "hunger

games" star jennifer lawrence to shoot provided one of the most memorable images. an arrow that hit the camera in the center of the bull's-eye. a disappointing day but an olympic moment. michael phelps and ryan lochte face off tonight in the men's 200 meter individual medley. you will also see gymnastics, the women's all-around, and you will see indoor volleyball. the united states versus brazil. the number one ranked team in the world. a big night tonight here at nbc. i'm phil rogers live in london. jessica, back to you. >> phil, we'll be glued to those tvs tonight. thank you so much. going for the gold apparently comes with a big tax bill. still ahead, a look at how much uncle sam wants from olympians and the details of a new plan to try and change it. still ahead at 5:00, the checks in the mail but criminals are opening it. why thieves are claiming millions of government dollars. and wrong place, wrong time. police shoot a pet while on a

manhunt. now they're trying to make amends. plus -- >> the people in the u.s. and the people in the world will benefit by the things that we do here. so that to me is where the real excitement is. >> it's the biggest and the best computer in silicon valley. in today's "bay area proud" we look at the life-changing work being done right here that could have worldwide impact. and a new warning for anyone thinking of taking a dip in a popular east bay lake. and good afternoon, i'm jeff ranieri in the weather center. the wind picking up at the coastline is producing fog at this hour and 60s. inland it is hot. 93 in livermore. that hot weather has increased the allergy forecast. we'll talk about cooler changes and what it could mean for that pollen in just a few minutes. must be nice, cheering on team usa from the shallow end.

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a santa clara woman is furious tonight after her dog was shot and injured after a police standoff with a parolee. police say about 4:00 this

morning joshua james benson, who's on parole for attempted murder, was reported as the suspect in a domestic disturbance. homeowner tamra pruitt says benson broke into her house while she was sleeping because he knows her son. police locked down the surrounding neighborhood and converged on the home. she warned police her dog, a pit bull named daphne, was in the house but was not dangerous. however, when benson walked out to surrender, the dog walked out too and then pruitt heard a gunshot. >> i was 99% sure they had shot the boy. and then i heard my dog yelp, and i'm like you killed my dog, you killed my dog? no. no, we did not kill your dog. we shot your dog with a bean bag. she's fine. >> she says one of the dog's legs is broken so badly it needs surgery and might have to be amputated. police confirm the city will pay the vet bills. on a hot summer day pleasanton's shadow lake is a great place to cool off but

swimmers are being warned not to swallow the water because bacteria levels are higher than acceptable levels. the recent water quality test found too much coliform bacteria. swimmers should dry off thoroughy. even though the levels are high, they are not high enough to close it for any recreational activities. tonight we profile not a person but a machine. a computer to be exact. >> the biggest computer right here in silicon valley. as nbc bay area's garvin thomas shows us, it's not just the size and speed of this computer that's impressive. >> the computer, sits on the campus of the nasa ames research center in mountain view. in so many ways it represents the best of silicon valley. but in one big way, it bucks a valley trend. the move to always make the technology smaller. well, tonight's bay area proud is a case for bigger is sometimes better.

it has its own home, its own name, and if you listen closely enough, you'd almost swear it has its own voice. but before you let your imagination get carried away and begin to think there's anything resembling life running through these cables -- >> come over here a second railroads willi. >> reporter: william is here to remind you that it's simply a tool and not necessarily a very smart one at that. >> it does what people would think of as really stupid things really fast. >> reporter: thigpen is chief the nasa advanced supercomputering division. he reminds us the smarts actually come from the people who built it, who keep it running and who dream up the applications that take advantage of its awesome power. >> we had one user who came here, ran a job and solved two

fundamental physics problems that had never been solved before. >> reporter: so just what exactly makes a computer capable of pulling off such a feat? well, in computer speak, it uses 126,000 cores, 65 miles of cabling and 233 terrabytes of memory to reach a sustained performance of 1.24 peda files. in english, it's a big, fast and hot computer. in fact it creates so much heat -- >> you'll see here all the hoses. >> if its robust cooling system were to fail, this room would shoot to 150 degrees in just ten minutes. what it is not, however, is simply an exercise in electronic excess. aeronautical engineers are using it to perfect the next

generation of lighter, quieter, and more efficient aircraft engines. atmospheric scientists need a computer this big to model the complex forces that include hurricanes. >> liftoff of the delta two rocket. >> reporter: and it takes a computer this complex to answer some of mankind's most basic questions. like are we alone? nasa's keplar mission is a big user of the computer in its search for other earth-like planets. >> we've been told by our users that this environment that we have here has enabled them to make discoveries they weren't able to make before on the machines they were using before. so that's how we measure success. >> we should put out while it is fast, it's not even the fastest computer in the bay area. the world's fastest supercomputer is at the lawrence livermore national laboratory. and while we spent all this time telling you how it is not like your home computer, in one very important way it is.

they are already eyeing their next upgrade. garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you, garvin. we here at nbc bay area want to give good ideas and our community a chance to be great. that's why we're launching 21st century solutions. if you want to learn how to apply for a grant worth up to $50,000, go to nbcbayarea.com. remember, the applications are due by august finth. well, the weekend is near. let's check in with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. >> we have good news if you thought it was too hot today with some of these upper 90s in the east bay. temperatures will gradually go town. let's take a look at who was the hottest. livermore 97, south san jose 94, morgan hill 94. right now we are beginning to cool off quite a bit near the coastline. a slight onshore wind is dropping us to 60s throughout the mid-peninsula, but that onshore flow is not strong at

this at this hour. let's bring you out to that live hd skyc camera network. if you have friends visiting in town, this is what hemt to see, the fog rolling into san francisco. a classic august day for us in the city. back into london, also some very classic weather. some on and off showers lately and there's the stadium all lit up getting ready for track and field beginning on friday. looking at that stadium, it looks like it holds maybe hundreds of thousands of people. 80,000. 41,000 at at&t park, so a lot of it is built just for those athletes on the track. okay, right now on the wide map, what we're finding here is a lot of cloud cover out into alaska and also in canada. it's a sign of the jetstream starting to shift. we'll continue to see this move to the south and basically it's going to keep this cool weekend breeze in place as we head throughout saturday, sunday and at least the early part of next week. so temperatures will be going down. at the coastline instead of 60s and 70s, we'll have more of those 50s and 60s. and then by saturday and sunday,

it will be more of a mix of 70s and 80s for the interior valley. so if you're just tuning in now, slight cooling coming as we head into this weekend. overall daytime highs on friday will be topping out like this. the south bay will be cooler. 86 in san jose. 89 in danville, 90 in dublin. pleasanton 91. 70s back by the bay. oakland expecting 73, berkeley 70, 84 santa rosa. in downtown san francisco, 67. olympics right here on nbc and on friday, well, some equestrian events. we'll have a few chance of showers, temperatures near 70. the thing to watch out for on our coverage on saturday, a slight chance of a thunderstorm may actually affect some of the competition. so we'll be watching that for you. speaking of equestrian, it's made up of three different events. eventing, jumping and dressage. the women first participated in the equestrian events back in 1952. it's kind of odd to think about it that way because you'd think women were always a part of those equestrian events.

on saturday and sunday, upper 80s to near 90 degrees. that pollen will eventually suffer by sunday if you do suffer from allergies. and mitt romney's wife, ann, her horse made the debut today. >> she's the investment horse, right? >> dressage? >> yeah, dressage. >> made its debut today. >> a >>. success comes with a price tag. what you don't know about those olympic medals and what uncle sam wants from them. and the feud is not over yet. michael jackson's family returns to court in the fight over his children's future.

the government sending money to krenls? we're learning the irs delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves. the treasury audit expects another $21 billion could make its way into the thieves' hands in the next few years.

one example, investigators found one address was used to file 2,000 separate returns. the irs cites electronic filing and pressure to issue refunds promptly, but says it hopes to help combat the problem by putting new i.d. theft screening tools into place. tonight michael jackson's mother is once again the guardian of the pop star's three children. today a judge reinstated 82-year-old katherine jackson as guardian of prince, paris and blanket. t.j. jackson has temporary co-guardian status, one of the cousins. the judge had first appointed t.j. as a temporary guardian after a bizarre incident in which katherine jackson was reported missing. turns out she was in arizona with family. however, she lost contact with the kids about ten days so her guardian status was suspended. later this month the judge will decide whether to make t.j.'s guardian status permanent. in a moment we'll be back with uncle sam's piece of that gold medal pie.

womening at the olympics is going to be costly for some olympians, especially the americans. in addition to winning the bling, olympians get an hahn rare january, $25,000 for winning gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. but in america, that has to be taxed because technically it's income. tax on gold comes out to nearly $9,000. silver is just over $5,000. and bronze about $3500. republican congressman mark rubio is working on a bill which would exempt medal-winning athletes from taxes. >> when they get that money they deserve to take it all home. >> look at michael phelps. >> that's going to do it for us. "nightly news" is next and we'll be back at 6:00. we'll see you then.

on our broadcast tonight from london one of the most momentous days of these summer games. big news tonight in two signature sports -- swimming and gymnastics. also tonight the air scare. how did three commuter jets full of people come so dangerously close in the skies above a big metropolitan area? inside syria president obama's decision to give more help to the rebels and what it might mean for the fight. plus it's been an incredible journey to get to these olympic games. up close and personal with the young american gymnast they call the flying squirrel. gabby douglas. "nightly news" from london gabby douglas. "nightly news" from london begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television

good evening once again from london where again tonight these games have made news. more than that they've made history and let's begin with fair warning. even though what happened here late today has been reported and replayed and repeated around the world already we try to supply an ample spoiler alert and this is one of those cases because we're about to report results. in gymnastics, a stunner of a gold medal performance for a young woman who is about to be the talk of our country. gabby douglas, who gutted it out and won on style and grit and poise and sheer talent at age 16, the first african-american ever to do so. and in swimming, this was the long-awaited showdown in the pool with the top two americans locking horns for a gold medal. nbc's kevin tibbles is across town in olympic park with all of it tonight. kevin, good evening.